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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE PH. LANG `AND PETER LAUsTEE, OEALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent `No. 292,660, dated January 29, 1884.

VAppliafion inea september i9, iga. (No modera To all whom Iltfmay conce/n.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE P. LANG and.

PETER LAUs'rER, citizens of the. United States, residing at Allegheny, county of Allegheny, State of Pennsylvania, have invented or discoveredA a new and useful Improvement in,

Jug-Tops; and We do hereby declare the fol'- lowing to be a full, clear, concise, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specication, in Which-like letters indicating is inelosed and protected from contact with the liquid contained in the jug, and a cappiece of symmetrical contour, which can be readily finished andis free from projection, is provided. i

The improvements claimed are hereinafter fully set forth. y

In the practice of our invention, we provide a cap-piece, A, adapted to iit the mouth of a 3o jug or pitcher, and having a lip or spout, a,

and a dished rim or flange, a', which forms a drip-cup belowand around the lip a. 'Ihe cover B is made of any suitable ornamental form, and corresponds in contour at bottom with the rim a ofthe cap-piece. A lug or hinge piece, b, iscast upon or secured to the bottom of the cover B, just within the periphery thereof, and in such position thereon that when the same is in desired operative relation to the cappieee the hinge-piece b shall enter and t freely in a recess formed in the periphery of the cap-piece A. At each end of said recess there is located a socket, a2, the opening of which is suited to serve as one of the bearings of a hinge pin or pintle, C, by.

which the cover is connected to the cap-piece. The opening in the hinge-piece b, through which the pin C passes, is made of sufficient diameter to admit a helical closing-spring, C', which surrounds said pin, and is inelosed within the hinge-piece, except for a short distance at and near its ends, one of which prob', is secured to the outside of the cover above the hinge-piece b, by the application of pressure to which, in opposition to the tension of the closing-spring G', the cover is swung upon the hinge-pin when desired to be raised.

ItV will be seen that the spring C being, except as to the small projections of its ends, completely inelosed in the opening of the hinge-piece, is fully protected from Aliability to breakage and from the access of the liquid; and, further, as the hinge-piece ts into and substantially lls the recess in the cap-piece, the latter, as also the cover, presents a symmetrical outline, and these pieces, having no external projections, are neat in appearance, and can be readily nished.

We are aware that closing-springs have been heretofore connected to the tops of jugs and pitchers, and do not therefore broadly claim such combination. Y

Ve claim herein as our inventionl. Ajug-top cover having a hinge-piece projecting downwardly from the inner port-ion of its rim, said hinge-piece having a single transverse opening adapted to receive a hinge-pin and a closing spring surrounding said pin,

`substantially as set forth.

GEORGE PH. LANG. PETER LAUSTER.

Witnesses:

It. H. WHITTLEsEY, D. S. WoLCotrT. 

